Venue
Deer Leap Nature Reserve
Starts
Saturday, September 24, 2022
Ends
Monday, October 10, 2022
Address
Deerleap ViewPoint and Car Park Priddy, Wells Somerset BA5 1EL
Location
South West England
Organiser
Somerset Art Works

Outdoor art workshops, ecology talks and meadow parade! Make take-home DIY bee shelters, pollinator illustration workshop, and more.

Pollinator Sanctuary is a commissioned sculpture at Deer Leap Nature Reserve, Mendips AONB. The installation collaborates  with nature, including mycelium, wild pollinators, and plantlife toward care and repair for our natural world.

Open Day Activities:

Come meet the artist Kelly M O’Brien and be inspired to make your own take-home pollinator shelter

Butterfly talk with local expert Peter Bright

Pollinator illustration workshop with artist Marian Hill

Learn about how fungi and mycelium help Save the Bees and make your own fungi fruiting block

3pm Pollinator Parade! Come dressed as your favorite pollinator (bee, butterfly, hummingbird…anything you please!)

On-site signage with QR code to dedicated website with further educational materials, links, resources

Family-friendly. Children must be supervised by responsible adult.

This one-day event is part of Somerset Art Weeks Festival and the outdoor sculpture, Pollinator Sanctuary, is open to the public 24/7 from 24th September through 9th October.

Directions:

The most accurate nav is to use the app What3Words: https://w3w.co/bandaged.basin.toolbar or map coordinates 51.24053N, 2.69043W

Deerleap Car Park is 1.3 miles from Priddy. From Wooky Hole, it is .6 miles past Ebbor Gorge